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Knowledge commons" describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of intellectual and cultural resources. It is the subject of enormous recent interest and enthusiasm with respect to policymaking about innovation, creative production, and intellectual property. Taking that enthusiasm as its starting point, the recently-published book Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford, 2014) argues that policymaking should be based on evidence and a deeper understanding of what makes commons institutions work. It offers a systematic way to study knowledge commons, borrowing and building on Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prizewinning research on natural resource commons. It proposes a framework for studying knowledge commons that is adapted to the unique attributes of knowledge and information, describing the framework in detail and explaining how to put it into context both with respect to commons research and with respect to innovation and information policy. Eleven detailed case studies apply and discuss the framework exploring knowledge commons across a wide variety of scientific and cultural domains. The lecture will describe the origins of the research framework and its status both relative to Ostrom's work and as an independent field. The lessons of the case study research to date will be discussed, along with plans for future work.

Professor Michael Madison writes and teaches about intellectual property law and policy, and about questions concerning the production and distribution of knowledge and innovation, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of more than 30 journal articles and book chapters, the co-author of The Law of Intellectual Property (Wolters Kluwer, 4th edition 2013) and the co-editor of Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford University Press 2014). He is the co-founder of the global research network titled the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons. He has been a member of the law faculty at the University of Pittsburgh since 1998. Before that, he taught at Harvard Law School on a fellowship and was engaged in the private practice of law in San Francisco and in Silicon Valley in California. Since 2006, he has taught at MIPLC on the faculty of the GWU Summer Program in IP.

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Das zehnjährige Jubiläum des Inkrafttretens der Kartellverfahrens-Verordnung 1/2003 sowie der Fusionskontroll-Verordnung 139/2004 steht für zentrale rechtspolitische Projekte der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik: Modernisierung, Dezentralisierung und Ökonomisierung. Zu denbedeutsamen Konsequenzen zählen die Herausbildung neuer Entscheidungsarten, Verfahren, Methoden und Begründungsmuster sowie eine größere europäische Verantwortung nationaler Kartellämter. Gleichzeitig markiert der zehnte Jahrestag der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Uniondie unmittelbare Anwendung des Kartellrechts in früher sozialistisch ausgerichteten Staaten.

Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Umwälzungen richtet der Vortragszyklus den Blick nach vorne auf die zukünftigen Herausforderungen, Notwendigkeiten und Entwicklungslinien der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik. Im kritischen Diskurs mit zentralen Entscheidungsträgern der Wettbewerbspolitik, Wissenschaftlern und Vertretern der Kartellrechtspraxis soll erörtert werden, ob die vor 10 Jahren eingeleiteten Veränderungen auch für die kommenden Jahre taugliche Instrumente der Wettbewerbspolitik zur Verfügung stellen.

Institutsseminar: Sujitha Subramanian wird sprechen über "Green Technology Patenting in the Refrigerant Gas Sector and the Climate Change Politics in Europe".

Lisa Heinzmann wird sprechen über: "Die Verwertungsrechte in der digitalen Welt. Eine urheberrechtliche Untersuchung unter Berücksichtigung des französischen, deutschen und europäischen Rechts." Obwohl der Titel auf Deutsch formuliert ist, wird der Vortrag selbst auf Englisch gehalten.

The use of debt to finance risky entrepreneurial-firm projects is rife with informational and contracting problems. Nonetheless, we document widespread lending to startups in three innovation-intensive sectors and in early stages of development. At odds with claims that the secondary patent market is too illiquid to shape debt financing, we find that intensified patent trading increases the annual rate of startup lending, particularly for startups with more redeployable (less firm-specific) patent assets. Exploiting differences in venture capital (VC) fundraising cycles and a negative capital-supply shock in early 2000, we also find that the credibility of VC commitments to refinance and grow fledgling companies is vital for such lending. Our study illuminates friction-reducing mechanisms in the market for venture lending, a surprisingly active but opaque arena for innovation financing, and tests central tenets of contract theory.

Bruno Lasserre is a member of the Conseil d’État, the French supreme administrative court, which he joined in 1978 after graduating from École Nationale d’Administration (ENA), the French national school for civil service.

Between 1989 and 1997, he served as Director for Regulatory Affairs, and then Director General for Posts and Telecommunications at the French Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In this position, he developed and implemented a comprehensive overhaul of the telecommunications sector, culminating in its full opening to competition as well as in the creation of an independent regulator.

He returned to the Conseil d’État in 1998, where he chaired the 1st Chamber for three years, before becoming Deputy Chairman for all litigation activities, between 2002 and 2004.

After serving as Member of the board of the Conseil de la concurrence (1998-2004), he was appointed President in July 2004, and in this capacity pushed through a major reform that transformed it into the Autorité de la concurrence, responsible for merger review and competition advocacy in addition to antitrust enforcement. He has chaired the Autorité since then.

He is also an Officer of the French Légion d’honneur and a Commander of the French Ordre national du Mérite.

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